Emphasis is given to results on interdisciplinary contributions, on
management tools and techniques, on innovative methodological or
technical developments, on items with wide general applicability, and
on local or regional experiments that can be a source of inspirations
to other regions.

Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
is focused on coastal environments what means that embraces a wide area
that extends from an indefinite distance inland to an indefinite limit
seaward. Paleoenvironments, ancient shorelines, historical occupation,
diachronically analysis and legislation evolution are some subjects
considered to fall within the purview of the journal as well.

Journal contributors and readers are not geographically confined: all
scientists and technicians working in coastal zones worldwide are
potential contributors and readers.

Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
accepts the submission of English written manuscripts, although
exceptionally can also receive manuscripts written in Portuguese or
Spanish.

Why to publish in JICZM/RGCI?

Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
is an open access journal what means that published articles are freely
available via Internet for immediate worldwide open access serving the
best interests of the international research community. There are no
subscription fees.

Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
is no different from traditional subscription-based journals;
manuscripts undergo the same peer-review and quality control as any
other certified international scholarly journal.

Accepted articles are made available on-line very fast. In the
period 2011-2014 the mean peer review time was 31 days (minimum: 3;
maximum: 74);

Aurhors continue to own the article copyright;

All interested readers can read, download, and/or print open access articles (or the whole journal) at no cost!

In Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
articles can be potentially read by millions of readers (which is
incomparable to publishing in a traditional paper printed journal) what
increases the potential to obtain more citations and consequently an
increase on the impact index.